A GLASGOW restaurant wants to permission to re-locate to empty shop premises at a prominent City Centre corner site.

Italian eatery Esca, in Chisholm Street, hopes to move into nearby 31 Trongate under the plan.

The new Esca premises would have seating for around 100 people and would employ 15 to 20 staff.

Proposed opening hours are 8am to 10pm.

A statement submitted with the application explains that the restaurant would use cooking equipment which would create no cooking fumes.

A change-of-use application is now pending consideration by City planners.

Esca’s current location in Chisholm Street